Lifestyle Factors and Cognitive Ageing: Variation across Ability and Lifestyle Domains

Cognitive abilities change with age. However, as there are marked individual differences in the timing and trajectory of these changes Lifestyle factors, particularly those which are malleable across the life course, may be highly informative for the development of interventions to reduce or delay age-related cognitive decline. Factors of interest, to name only a few, include aspects of social, leisure, and physical activity; personality; social networks, support and relationships; and health behaviours The purpose of this special issue was to bring together research that addresses the associations between cognition in older adulthood and these various factors, thereby allowing overarching themes, trends, and conclusions to emerge.